Society for Prevention Research Annual Meetings

描述(申请人提供)：本申请书旨在申请拨款给 支持制定和实施年度科学会议 预防研究学会(SPR)在接下来的五年里。SPR是 成立于1991年，由NIDA支持的一小群高级调查人员创建。完毕 在过去的九年里，会员人数已经扩大到400多人。 代表公共卫生广泛领域的研究人员、倡导者和受训者 预防研究。在年会上提交的这项研究是由 日益多样化的NIH研究所，如NIMH、NIDA、NIAAA和NCI，以及 其他联邦机构，如SAMHSA、OJJDP、能源部和各种私人机构 基金会。 1998年和1999年，人们认识到SPR的焦点有所扩大，并有所增加 在董事会的规模和代表中，并通过 一套新的章程的成员资格，这些章程规定了广泛的扩展 任务。更具包容性的使命的核心是建立和 传播评估预防证据质量的原则 公共卫生领域的项目。SPR支持制度化 经证实有效的预防方案。这样做的目的是 应用程序包括： 1)通过特别方案审议年度会议发展一个集中统一的 交流新概念、新方法和新成果的科学论坛 预防研究及相关公共卫生领域。 2)在以下方面提供培训和职业发展机会 调查人员在其研究生涯的所有阶段所需的领域 设计和实施严谨、可靠、有效的预防措施 研究。这一目标的核心是制定招聘方案。 有前途的少数民族学生和教职员工投身公共卫生预防研究。 3)促进科学家和公共政策领导人之间的沟通 关于全面实施循证预防方案 公共卫生领域。通过年会上的活动，特别报告员将 创造独特的机会向科学家通报预防知识 优先事项，以及如何在科学研究中解决这些关切。 对未来五年年度会议的支持将使战略 超越当前临时年度短期规划的规划 不确定的资金所要求的。到目前为止，年度会议的资源 在没有长期持续规划的情况下，按年增长 有可能。随着SPR的增长，来自会费、工作坊费用和 SPR期刊《预防科学》的订阅量有所增加。然而，由于 由于年会规模和成本的快速增长，目前的收入 不足以支付年度会议的费用。增加会费和 收费不仅会减少早期职业研究人员的参与，而且 这也会削弱SPR在会议上发挥领导作用的能力 不属于预防研究主流的科学家，但他们 观点和研究结果。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application is to request funding to support the development and implementation of the annual scientific meetings of the Society for Prevention Research (SPR) for the next five years. The SPR was founded in 1991 by a small group of NIDA-supported senior investigators. Over the past nine years, the membership has expanded to well over four hundred researchers, advocates, and trainees representing broad areas of public health prevention research. The research presented at the annual meeting is funded by increasingly diverse NIH institutes, such as NIMH, NIDA, NIAAA, and NCI, and other federal agencies such as SAMHSA, OJJDP, the DOE, and various private foundations. The broadening of focus of SPR was recognized in 1998 and 1999 with an increase in the size and representation of the Board of Directors, and the passage by the membership of a new set of bylaws that codifies the broad expanding mission. Central to the more inclusive mission is establishing and disseminating principles for assessing the quality of evidence of prevention programs across public health domains. SPR supports institutionalizing prevention programs with demonstrated effectiveness. The aims of this application are: 1) To develop through the SPR annual meetings a centrally integrative scientific forum for the exchange of new concepts, methods, and results from prevention research and related public health fields. 2) To provide opportunities for training and career building among investigators at all stages of their research careers in the areas needed for the design and implementation of rigorous, reliable, and valid prevention research. Central to this aim is the developing of programs for recruiting promising minority students and faculty into public health prevention research. 3) To foster communication between scientists and public policy leaders concerning the implementation of evidence-based prevention programs in all areas of public health. Through activities at the annual meetings, the SPR will create unique opportunities for informing scientists about prevention priorities, and how these concerns can be addressed in scientific studies. Support of the annual meetings over the next five years will enable strategic planning beyond the current ad hoc annual short-term planning currently required by uncertain funding. Until now, resources for the annual meetings have been gained on a year-to-year basis with no long-term sustained planning possible. As SPR has grown, revenues from membership dues, workshop fees, and subscriptions for SPR's journal Prevention Science have increased. However, due to the rapid growth in size and costs of the annual meeting, current revenues are insufficient to cover the costs of the annual meeting. Increasing dues and fees would not only decrease the participation of early career researchers, but it also would impair the ability of SPR to bring to the meeting leading scientists who are outside the mainstream of prevention research, but whose perspectives and research findings.